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Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Act 2014
No. 102, 2014
An Act to amend the Meteorology Act 1955, and for related purposes
Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s) Schedule 1—Amendments Part 1—General amendments Meteorology Act 1955 Part 2—Technical amendments Meteorology Act 1955
Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Act 2014 No. 102, 2014
An Act to amend the Meteorology Act 1955, and for related purposes
[Assented to 11 September 2014]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Act 2014.
2 Commencement This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Part 1—General amendments
Meteorology Act 1955
1 After section 7 Insert:
7A Advertising (1) The Bureau may include advertising on, in or in connection with any of its services. (2) The Director must develop and publish guidelines relating to advertising. (3) Guidelines made under subsection (2) are not a legislative instrument.
2 Section 8 After "advice,", insert "services,".
3 Validation To avoid doubt, any act or thing done in connection with the inclusion of advertising on any of the Bureau's services before the commencement of this item is, and is taken always to have been, as valid as that act or thing would have been if the act or thing had been done after the commencement of this item.
Part 2—Technical amendments
Meteorology Act 1955
4 Subsection 4(2) Omit "shall".
5 Subsection 4(2) Omit "cease", substitute "ceases".
6 Subsection 5(1) Omit "shall", substitute "is to".
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